The document discusses the integrated approach to education, which creates a learner-centered curriculum based on students' interests that allows flexible and engaging learning. It values enhancing learning through learner-centered activities in real-life contexts that encourage critical thinking and problem-solving. An effective integrated approach requires reassessing the learning process with open-ended questions and information skills to promote active, collaborative, and creative learning that breaks down barriers between subjects. Educators take the role of facilitating student-driven constructive and resource-based learning. The document outlines steps to integrate information and communication technology into the curriculum through research, staff training, piloting, and ongoing evaluation for continuous improvement.

1. The Integrated Approach
By: Emil Michael

2. What is the integrated
approach?
A teaching method that allows student to learn in
a way that is natural and learner-centered in a
learner-interest context. This type of approach
exists when a curriculum is created based on the
learners’ interests and is comfortable, fun and
flexible.

3. What is the Value of integration?
 Enhance learning
 Leaner-centred activities
 Real life contexts
 Encourage critical thinking
 Encourage problem-solving

4. Learning Approach for the
Effective Integration of ICT with
Curriculum
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A re-assessment of the nature of the learning
process is required with greater emphasis being
placed on open-ended questions and information
skills. The following are expected:
Active learning – provide a platform for inquiry,
analysis and construction of new knowledge
Collaboration – encourages cooperation and
interaction among students, teachers and experts
Creativity- promotes the exploitation of existing
information to create real-world products
Integration between subjects – eliminates the
separation between disciplines

5. Expected Role of the Educator in
the Classroom
The role of the educator in the classroom is
expected to be that of manager / facilitator of
learning to allow for the learners to develop a
constructivist or resource-based learning strategy.

6. Towards Curriculum Integration
with ICT
 Conduct research to identify current resources
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and best practices
Involve staff members in developing a plan
Conduct training sessions with staff to
demonstrate best practices
Pilot the implementation at a select grade level
while monitoring and assessment takes place
Adopt a school-wide implementation with
continual monitoring and evaluation to effect
improvement

7. Conclusion
It is important that ICT integration be utilized as a
medium to improve the teaching and learning
process. Efforts should be made to focus on
demonstrating progressively improved use of ICT
and establishing how best resources can be
allocated and teachers developed in order to
replicate success